Rabbits. We'll by no means rather understand why, yet occasionally they make a decision they've simply had adequate of this global- and that's once they commence getting creative. The ebook of Bunny Suicides follows over 100 bunnies as they locate ever extra outlandish how one can do themselves in. From an stumble upon with the enterprise finish of Darth Vader's lightsaber, to supergluing themselves to a diving submarine, to striking round beneath a unfastened stalactite, those bunnies are interested by suicide.

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e's wickedly hilarious team from the Miller Shanks advert supplier is again with extra workplace shenanigans. the workers has moved directly to Meerkat360, a graceful and self-consciously hip boutique organization, the place they're joined by means of a clean forged of industrial-strength nutjobs. via e-mails, texts, and web publication entries they pitch advert campaigns—Estée Lauder's new Margaret Thatcher body spray, somebody? —mangle love lives, and rarely navigate workplace and relations politics.

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Nice Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood’s masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was once celebrated as a very good attractiveness and amazing raconteur lengthy ahead of she made her identify as a strikingly unique author. This macabre, mordantly humorous, in part auto-biographical novel unearths the gothic craziness behind the curtain within the nice homes of the aristocracy, as witnessed in the course of the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage woman.

Erin McHugh’s final books, Like My mom consistently acknowledged . . . and prefer My Father continually acknowledged . . . , pulled jointly a rainbow of savvy, funny, and ques­tionable knowledge from mom and dad. Her subsequent quantity leaves domestic and heads for the study room to have a good time what we gleaned from might be the obvious applicants for studying: our lecturers.

THE ALIEN-SHAPED HEADS By alien, we don’t mean the guys you picked up at the Home Depot to help deliver the baby. We mean the Sigourney Weaver-fighting kind (whose infamous chest bursting birth scene, incidentally, is the only thing most expectant fathers have to prepare them for the act of childbirth). As it turns out, babies’ heads are soft and don’t become hard until months or years after they’re born. This explains why you don’t usually see them at college parties, crushing beer cans with their foreheads.

Then the eggs hatch and they enter the dreaded swarm phase of their existence. Much like the word killer, nature takes words like dreaded and swarm very, very seriously. The ants go on the move, a near-solid mass of insect death and horror, moving steadily and swiftly along the jungle floor, flaying alive and disassembling every living thing too stupid, slow, or asleep to get out of the way. There are no painful stingers or ballistic acids; this is the kind of terror that simply flows over you by the hundreds of thousands and rips you apart with unbelievably powerful jaws, utterly and literally blind to size and species, considering everything in its path to be a threat to the continuation of the colony.

Couple that with the fact that a baby’s heart slows way down during every contraction, which sets off a little alarm on the monitor similar to the one that goes off when a patient flatlines on Scrubs, and you may find that you have shit your pants before the kid is even out. Don’t feel bad though. Like we said, there is a lot of pooping going on at this point, so if you do let one slide, just motion toward the mother when she isn’t looking and plug your nose as if to say, “Yeah, I smell it too.